| This Little Pig Shouldn't Go to Market |
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| Written by Kiki Hubbard | |
| Wednesday, 09 July 2008 | |
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Envirovore told you about the first case of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) -- a deadly bacterial infection -- confirmed in Canadian pigs a few months ago. It was the first known case in North America. We said similar studies were underway in the U.S. Well, the results are in. Scientists at the University of Iowa found that 70 percent of the pigs they tested carried a strain of MRSA. And nearly half of 20 workers on pig farms carried the same strain. Apparently our government is testing meat for MRSA, too. Though the results aren't in, some public interest groups are already critical of the government for not testing livestock in addition to meat. Three people in the UK are known to have contracted this MRSA strain. The likely cause was handling or eating infected meat. Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
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It's true what our moms said...we are what we eat. In fact, it's truer than they thought. What I eat doesn't just affect me anymore, it affects all of us.
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